VB Forum / General / May 2005

I am using VB5 on a Win2000 system(I don't think the system matter but
it might, SP4 with all critical patches installed)
I want to do a very very simple thing.  I have a situation where I
need to create a simple text file and upload it to one place.  It is a

We are using a VB6 application which uses a UDL file to contain the
database connection string, dbname, database username and password.
And the last one is the problem. The Password is plainly visible if you
open the UDL file in a text editor.

I am having lots of trouble with this, probably because I am not sure where
to start.
Basically I have a text file that looks like this:
MID:0 <- Not needed

Is there a way to compile a DLL and not have the DLL automatically
registered?
I've got a separate program that does the registration and setup.

Which function could I used to find the location of the
Shell32.dll file.  I would like to use some resources from
this file, but I don't want to hard code its location.

I've loaded in several sql scripts into a resource file for use with my
application.  I load them into a byte array at runtime and then convert them
to a string so that I can execute them.  All works great except for 2
scripts.  Here's the code I'm using:

I have a search function that submits a simple query and gets back an ADO
recordset that I put into a listview control field by field and row by row
with a simple For-Next loop.  It's a pretty speedy operation for the most
part, but I was wondering if it is possible that if the ...

thanks friends! with your help my form is loading as I wish. Thanks

I need to make a windows call to determine whether a
computer is using Windows XP or Windows Classic Style, if
such a call exists. If this is not the proper place for
this request, please give me the name of a better

I have two apps running simultaneously. Each uses the same shared file. How
can i
programmatically determine if the other app accessed this file ? Example
would be nice.

hi friends, I'm loading a form who connect to my database and retrieve all
the information from a table, then I show a progress bar that show de
progress of the load job, but the problem is that I can't see my form when he
load, I think that is working like a background process ...

dynamic_cast doesn't return the correct values: e.g. in my project I have a
lot of classes, say A, B, C, D - D being the most derived, A being base - if
I put printf(this)  in the constructors of them they all get different
values, e.g.

I am curious what others charge an hour for consulting?
Thanks

I have read what I can find on .frx files on the MSDN library, but I could
not find out a few specific things:
1) Can any project's frx files be deleted and regenerated? and as an
extension:

Here's my problem I want to reset certain sections in an ini file before I
begin my code, in other words set them back to be blank, currently here is
the code I am using.
Public Sub DeleteOutputSection(szName As String)